kern/167321: Implement sysctl to control kernel accounting log messages (e.g. acct(2))

[Jeremy Chadwick]

The following reply was made to PR kern/167321; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/167321: Implement sysctl to control kernel accounting log
 messages (e.g. acct(2))
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:18:02 -0700

 ...and also the patch for the acct(2) man page, documenting this
 variable.
 
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 | Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at koitsu.org |
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 --- SNIP ---
 
 --- src/lib/libc/sys/acct.2.orig	2009-08-03 01:13:06.000000000 -0700
 +++ src/lib/libc/sys/acct.2	2012-04-26 05:11:42.670706272 -0700
 @@ -87,6 +87,16 @@
  .It Va kern.acct_suspend
  The percentage of free disk space below which process
  accounting will suspend.
 +.It Va kern.acct_logging
 +If set to 0, the kernel will inhibit console messages indicating when
 +accounting is enabled, disabled, suspended, or resumed.  This can be
 +useful when the
 +.Xr periodic.conf 5
 +variable
 +.Va daily_accounting_enable
 +is set to
 +.Dq YES .
 +The default value is 1 (enabled).
  .El
  .Sh RETURN VALUES
  On error -1 is returned.